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I guess my "pale geek with long hair" look wasn't quite exciting enough to make it. I would have even been willing to hold an appliance on request though as I'm currently inbetween (cough) irons it would have had to have been a coffee grinder or something. :-)

Does anyone know how I can get the window that is currently in focus? I want to grab the web page that a person is viewing when they do. Then look up the associated rdf file for the web page, and provide a list of the rdf links for that web page in a small app. This is for people who find it hard to move their hands. They could navigate a web page like slashdot by saying the title number (e.g. 1. 'title 1..' 2. 'title 2...' and so on)

Well, here's a bash script to get the currently active Konqueror. What you're talking about becomes non-trivial, but this might get you going. Sorry for the lack of formatting -- the Dot's text input doesn't allow formatting characters (i.e. )

== BEGIN SCRIPT==
#!/bin/bash

for i in `dcop | grep konqueror` ; do
for j in `dcop $i | grep mainwindow` ; do
if [ `dcop $i $j isActiveWindow` == "true" ] ; then
echo $i is the currently active Konqueror.
exit
fi
done
done
echo There is no currently active Konqueror.

Are you saying that the only reason to use Linux is to "prove" something? I'm sure you're not, but that's easy to read into your statement. We use Linux because we prefer it over the alternatives for various reasons, and the reason some alternative was used for the PDF has probably got to do, as was suggested, with workflow processes or something other instead.

English makes it hard to recognize conditional things some time. I of course meant "when we would stop" which can be expressed as "when we stoped". But I also wanted to express that we stoped actually already.

Nobody needs to use Linux over other platforms to prove it can do something the other can. I can. But we are still free to take work flow preferences.

In this particular case, the answer is simple: workflow. The pdfs are generated out of the DTP program we use, and as for today there is no such thing as a production ready Linux DTP program suitable for magazines. We hope, Scribus will get there one day, but for the moment we have to stick to MacOS for this task. (FYI: This publisher is a MS free zone, everything apart from layout related tasks is done using Linux :)

>>However, I see a lot of other Linux related pdfs that could have easily been written in OOo or LaTeX if the time had been put into it.<<

The problem is not that it is impossible. The problem is that it is too difficult and uncomfortable, especially LaTex. But also OOo is, while certainly not bad for its costs, much worse than MS Word.
Many people use the tools that make them most productive and do not use free software just for the sake of it.

I can't see your case for MS Word being better then OOWriter. For almost all uses many people comfortable with both programs prefer the latter. Only people who don't really know and use OOwriter, such as you, would claim that it is "much worse".

As we are talking about PDF creation: This is impossible to do using MSWord. Microsoft software can't do it. (I know distiller and Freepdf, but those are not part of MSWord, you might as well use CrossOver and kprinter....)
In OpenOffice it is one click!

The first int is the parameter, which turns interactivity on or off. If it is 0, the ksmserver does not ask if logout command should be executed or not. If the first param is != 0 the ksmserver asks.
The second param is the logout command. 0 means 'logout' from currentkde session. 1 means 'reboot of system and 2 means shutdown of system.
The third param is still unknown for me. Maybe it is some kind of timer, but I am not sure. I will look through the sources (if I find them) and try to find out what this third param means.
I hope that that was a little bit of help for you.

Bit late posting, but does anyone know if there's a kdebindings binary rpm floating around for Mandrake 9.1, without forking out for Mandrake club? I realise KDE has nothing to do with building binary releases - just curious if anyone could help - Rpmfind doesn't seem to find anything.

I wonder if a perl script could be written to "discover" a local samba network and automatically create links in the kfmclient (kde file manager) for the shares? Similar to the way the old Corel file manager "self discovered" and configured itself for windows networking.